178,1    Yates,  Richard 
-7*         mVlp  +e^^r-!nce  movement*  Address 
of  Senator  Yates,  of  Illinois,  before 
the  Congressional  Temperance  Associa- 
tion, on  Sunday  evening,  February  1?, 
18^7,  in  the  House  of  representatives. 


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THE   TEMPERANCE   MOVEMENT. 


ADDRESS 


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SENATOR  YATES,  OF  ILLINOIS, 

Befoke  the  Congressional  Temperance  Association,  on  Sunday 
Evening,  February  17,  1867,  in  the  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives, Washington,  D.  C. 

In  introducing  the  speaker,  Hon.  Henry  Wilson,  president  of  the  associ. 
ation,  said  : 

We  have  passed  through  a  great  war,  in  which  we  fought  six  hundred 
battles  for  the  Republic.  In  that  great  contest  Illinois  played  a  glorious 
-p*afT.~~  The  Governor  of  that  State  linked  his  name  forever  with  that  grand 
tru*g*g*le  for  unity  and  liberty.  I  have  the  honor  and  the  pleasure  to  present 
Governor  Yates  to  this  assemblage.  [Applause.]  God  grant  that  in  the 
great  struggle  in  which  we  are  now  engaged  against  the  enemy  of  human 
nature  he  may  associate  his  name  as  gloriously  as  he  did  in  the  war  against 
the  enemy  of  his  country.     [Applause.] 

ADDRESS   OF   SENATOR   YATES. 

Ladies  and  Gentleman:  It  was  not  my  intention  to  address  you  at  all 
until  this  afternoon,  and  I  feel  the  need  of  more  preparation  before  speaking 
to  so  large  an  audience  as  this.  The  reason  why  I  did  not  propose  to  ad- 
dress this  assembly  was  because  having  so  recently  associated  myself  with 
the  Congressional  Temperance  Association,  I  did  not  like  to  make  a  parade 
of  myself  before  the  public.  Men  sometimes  sign  pledges,  and  they  break 
them ;  but,  Mr.  President,  I  have  signed  for  good,  [applause,]  and  I  have 
made  my  covenant  with  God  that  I  will  keep  mine.  But  I  felt  it  were  bet- 
ter to  prove  first  that  I  was  well  established  in  my  new  position  before  I 
attempted  to  express  sentiments  on  this  question  in  that  earnest  and  enthu- 
siastic manner  in  which  I  always  address  my  fellow  citizens  in  behalf  of  any 
cause  which  has  the  conviction  of  my  judgment  and  the  approval  of  my 
heart. 

Some  two  months  ago  your  distinguished  chairman,  the  able  and  eloquent 
Senator  from  Massachusetts,  in  his  kindness,  in  the  goodness  of  his  great  big 
heart,  came  to  me  with  a  petition  numerously  signed  by  members  of  Con. 
gress,  and  said  :  "  Governor,  I  want  you  to  sign  a  call  for  a  temperance 





meeting."  "With  all  my  heart,"  said  I.  I  signed  it  But  the  temperance 
meeting  did  not  come  off.  I  became  impatient.  I  went* to  the  honorable 
Senator,  and  told  him  I  was  tired  of  waiting;  could  he  not  furnish  me  a 
pledge  ?  He  said  he  could  to-morrow.  The  next  day  he  furnished  me  with 
a  printed  pledge  of  the  Congressional  Temperance  Society.  I  put  it  in  my 
pocket,  took  it  home,  took  it  to  my  room,  road  it  carefully,  and,  after  one 
look  to  God  and  one  to  home,  I  signed  the  pledge.  I  raised  myself  to  my 
full  height,  and  I  was  free.  [Great  applause.]  If  I  refer  to  myself  in  the 
remarks  I  have  made,  and  which  I  intend  to  make,  I  assure  you  it  is  not 
from  egotism,  for  I  take  no  peculiar  pride  myself  in  having  been  addicted 
to  the  use  of  ardent  spirits.  But  there  is  another  reason  why  I  feel  per- 
mitted to  refer  to  myself,  and  that  is,  because  while  I  have  considered  that 
I  was  only  a  moderate  drinker,  it  has  been  published  all  over  the  land  that  I 
was  a  drunkard. 

Fellow-citizens,  there  was  some  truth  in  this,  and  there  was  a  vast  deal  of 
error  in  it  too.     I  was  addicted  to  drinking  occasionally  as  a  stimulus,  as  I 
supposed  to  strengthen  my  nerves — [laughter] — and  as  a  heightener  of  so- 
cial joys.     But,  Mr.  Chairman,  differently  from  other  men,  I  had  a  most  un- 
fortunate difficulty  with  myself,  and  that  was,  I  had  a  wonderful  facility 
whenever  I  drank,  of  letting  everybody  know  it.     [Laughter.]     My  sprees 
were  not  frequent,  but  they  were  long  and  they  were  loud.     [Laughter.]. 
The  grand  prairies  of  Illinois  did  not  furnish  area  enough  for  one  of  my 
forward  movements.     [Laughter.]     That  was  not  only  the  case,  but  what- 
ever I  have  done  for  the  last  seventeen  years — whether  I  had  to  make  a 
speech  to  a  political  meeting  ;   whether  I  spoke  against  the  Nebraska  bill 
upon  the  floor  of  this  House ;  whether  as  Governor,  I  wrote  a  message,  or 
published  a  proclamation,  or  prorogued  a  secession  legislature — [great  ap- 
plause]— the  universal  charge  of  the  opposite  party  was,  that  all  these  acts 
were  done  under  the  influence  of  whiskey.      [Laughter.]     Now,  fellow- 
citizens,  I  have  concluded  to  put  a  stop  to  this  matter.     The  editors   and 
reporters  of  newspapers  are  an  honorable  class  of  gentlemen  whom  I  re- 
spect;  but   I  want  those  libellous  scribblers  who  have  made- so  many  mis- 
representations as  to  my  course  of  conduct,  to  understand  that  from  this 
time  henceforward  their  vocation  in  that  respect  is  gone — [laughter  and  ap- 
plause]— and  they  may  now  publish  their  libels  until  the  hand  that  writes 
them   shall  fall  withered  and  palsied ;  but  I  never  intend  that  they  shall 
have  any  license  or  authority  to  publish  me  as  a  drunkard  again,  even  if  I 
have  to  abstain,  as  I  will  abstain,  from  the  mildest  glass  of  claret  that  ever 
the  fair  hand  of  the  fairest  lady  in  this  land  should  present  me.     [Applause.] 

There  is  the  evil  of  the  thing:  this  misrepresentation,  this  liability  to 
misrepresentation.  Why,  sir,  after  I  had  made  these  speeches  some  sharp 
article  of  abuse  would  bo  published  in  some  paper,  and  some  "  Friendly  In- 
dian" of  mine — [laughter] — would  mark  around  it  with  black  lines  and 
send   it   to   me   for   my    Christian    contemplation   and   supreme   delight. 


[Laughter.]  I  will  stop  it.  I  have  promised  God;  I  have  promised  my 
country  ;  I  have  promised  that  proud  Commonwealth  which  for  twenty  five 
consecutive  years  has  honored  me  with  all  her  public  positions,  in  the  Legis- 
lature, as  Governor,  as  member  of  both  houses  of  Congress ;  I  have 
promised  all  who  love  me,  and  I  have  promised  Katie  and  the  children — 
[loud  applause]— that  I  will  never  touch,  taste,  nor  handle  the  unclean 
thing — [applause] — and  by  the  blessing  of  God  and  my  own  unfaltering- 
purpose,  I  intend  to  fight  it  out  on  this  line  to  the  last  day  in  the  evening 
of  my  life.  [Applause.]  If  all  you,  gentlemen,  would  do  the  same  thing, 
you  would  lose  nothing  in  mind,  body,  or  estate.     [Laughter.] 

Fellow-citizens  :  It  may  seem  strange,  but  I  would,  as  1  feel  now,  as  soon 
drink  fire  from  hell  itself  as  whiskey,  for  it  is  hell  and  damnation  too.  It  de- 
stroys the  health,  and  mars  the  beauty  of  the  body;  it  can  bow  dowu  to 
earth  the  most  giant  intellect,  and  make  it  weak  as  that  of  a  child  :  it  de- 
moralizes and  it  annihilates  the  immortal  soul.  It  makes  a  man  forget  his 
children  or  the  wife  of  his  bosom,  and  treat  them  with  harsh  unkindness 
and  barbarity,  and  even  murder  them.  Unaffected  by  intemperanee  he 
would  peril  his  life  for  that  wife  of  his  love ;  hei  would  dive  into  the  ocean's 
depths,  face  the  cannon's  mouth,  or  peril  his  life  amid  the  flames  of  the 
burning  dwelling  to  snatch  from  death  his  darling  babe. 

I  do  not  suppose  at  all  that  I  am  superior  to  anybody  else  in  intellect,  I 
certainly  have  no  special  claims  to  consideration  from  birth  or  fortuue;  but 
there  is  one  thing  I  do  claim,  and  that  is,  that  God  has  endowed  m'e  with 
nobility  of  soul,  with  warm  and  generous  impulses — a  heart  as  unfathom- 
able in  its  affections  as  the  ocean,  and  as  broad  as  the  area  of  humanity, 
and  I  appeal  to  you,  Mr.  Chairman,  from  our  slight  acquaintance,  if  you 
do  not  think  I  have  enough  of  the  ardent  about  me  without  ardent  spirit's. 
[Laughter  ] 

Mr.   Wilson.  Yes;  you  have. 

Mr.  Yates.  I  would  say  to  the  young  man  that  grandeur  of  human 
character  does  not  consist  in  transcendent  genius  alone.  It  does  not  belong 
alone  to  the  statesman  beneath  whose  eloquence  listening  Senates  sit  en- 
raptured; it  does  not  belong  alone  to  the  warrior  who  bears  his  proud, 
linconquered  banner  over  ever}7  field  ;  but  it  does  consist  in  force  of 
character,  in  force  of  soul,  feeling,  thought,  and  purpose.  Ca\sar  was  a 
.weak  man  when  ho  sacrificed  the  liberties  of  Rome  by  suffering  Marc  An- 
tony to  put  the  crown  upon  his  head.  Washington  would  not  have  been 
great  if  he  had  yielded  to  the  temptations  of  his  willing  army,  and  accepted 
a  crown  at  the  expense  of  the  liberties  of  his  country.  The  reformed 
drunkard  accomplishes  a  more  heroic  achievement  than  did  the  Spartan 
band  at  Thermopylae,  because  he  conquers  himself.  That  man  is  only  great 
who  seeks  right  and  truth  and  justice,  and  adheres  to  them  with  strong, 
vigorous,  and  perpetual  purpose. 


As  to  the  effects  upon  the  nation,  Mr.  Jefferson  said,  many  years  ago, 
that—  / 

"The  habit  of  using  alcoholic  liquors  by  men  in  office  has  created  more  injury 
to  the  public  service,  and  given  more  trouble  to  me,  than  any  other  circumstance 
which  has  occurred  in  the  internal  concerns  of  the  country  during  my  administra- 
tion. If  I  had  to  commence  my  administration  again  with  the  knowledge  I  have 
from  experience  derived,  the  first  question  which  I  would  ask  from  a  candidate  for 
public  favor  would  be,  is  he  addicted  to  the  use  of  ardent  spirits." 

The  man  who  is  to  legislate  for  a  great  country,  to  help  make  laws  and 
constitutions  involving  the  destinies  of  millions  of  human  beings,  ought  to 
be  a  man  of  reflection,  moral  principle,  integrity,  and,  above  all.  a  sober 
man.  [Applause  ]  Go  into  your  legislative  hall,  State  and  national,  and 
behold  the  drunkard  staggering  to  his  seat,  or  sleeping  at  his  post,  and 
ask  yourself  the  question  whether  he  is  not  more  fit  to  be  called  a  monu- 
ment of  his  country's  shame  than  the  representative  of  freemen.  Would  it 
not  be  most  fearful  to  contemplate  that  ill-fated  epoch  in  the  history  of  our 
country  when  the  demon  of  intemperance  shall  come  into  our  legislative 
halls  without  shame,  remorse,  or  rebuke;  when  he  shall  sit  upon  juries,  upon 
the  bench,  and  drunkenness  run  riot  among  the  people  ?  Who  then  will 
protect  the  ship  of  State  upon  this  maddening  tiie;  who  will  steer  her  in 
her  onward  course  amid  the  dashing  billows;  who  spread  the  starry  flag  to 
the  free,  fresh,  wild  winds  of  heaven  ? 

Watchman,  what  of  the  night  ?  We  have  been  engaged  in  a  mighty  re- 
volution. Your  army  and  navy  have  carried  your  arms  under  Grant  aud 
Banks  against  the  Gibraltars  of  the  Mississippi,  and  opened  that  stream  from 
its  source  to  its  mouth.  Under  the  gallant  Joe  Hooker  your  troops  scaled 
the  heights,  and  above  the  clouds  unfurled  to  the  sun  the  glorious  flag  of 
the  stars.  [Applause.]  Sherman  marches  from  Cairo  to  the  sea,  while 
Grant  marches  through  the  Wilderness  to  the  Confederate  capital.  The  rebel- 
lion is  crushed.  Behold  I  a  whole  race  set  free — the  shackles  of  the  ages 
broken,  and  we  see  full  high  advanced  the  standard  of  the  nation's  redemp- 
tion. Hark  !  dinna  you  hear  the  pibroch  of  the  Highlanders,  and  borne 
upon  the  wings  of  the  wind  the  slogan  shout  of  universal  emancipation  ? 
[Applause.] 

And  now  shall  this  puissant  nation,  "  Columbia,  queen  of  the  world  and 
child  of  the  skies,"  pause  in  her  efforts  when  there  is  an  enemy  in  our  land 
more  destructive  than  war,  pestilence  and  famine  combined,  which  sends 
annually  one  hundred  thousand  men  to  untimely  graves,  makes  fifty  thou- 
sand widows,  and  three  hundred  thousand  wives  worse  than  widows — 
filling  our  prisons,  our  poor-houses,  our  lunatic  asylums,  and  swelling  to  an 
untold  extent  the  great  ocean  of  human  misery,  wretchedness,  and  woe? 

Somebody  told  me  he  saw  in  a  Chicago  paper  the  other  day  that  since 
Governor  Yates  had  joined  the  temperance  society,  whiskey  had  fallen  ten 


cents  a  gallon.  [Laughter.]  Well,  that's  good,  indeed.  [Laughter.] 
At  all  eveuts,  it's  good  news,  for  all  that  ever  kept  my  slanderers  from 
drinking  themselves  to  death  pro  bono  publico  was  the  high  price  of  whis- 
key. [Laughter.]  We  will  bring  it  within  their  reach,  for  it  will  have  to 
fall  much  lower  than  the  present  price  before  it  reaches  its  real  intrinsic 
value — a  specie  basis.  [Laughter.]  Mr  President,  if  old  King  Alcohol  were 
dead  and  buried,  as  he  ought  to  be,  beyond  the  power  of  resurrection,  this 
nation  could  bear  our  national  debt  like  a  young  Hercules.  [Applause.] 
Then,  sir,  two  blades  of  grass  would  grow  where  one  now  grows,  and  un- 
bounded wealth,  Imperial  power,  and  proud  position  would  be  the  heritage 
of  the  nation  forever.     [Applause.] 

But  some  say  this  temperance  business  is  fanaticism — itrs  a  gloomy  sort 
of  life.  There  never  was  a  greater  mistake.  Temperance  is  one  of  the 
sweetest  and  most  delightful  things  upon  earth;  it  is  the  very  spring-head 
of  cheerfulness,  happiness,  and  joy — the  very  chivalry  of  manhood  itself.  I 
have  been  a  temperance  man  for  fifteen  days,  and  I  am  a  gayer  boy  to-night 
than  I  have  been  for  seventeen  years.  [Laughter.]  I  think  I  am  the 
gayest  man  in  the  Senate,  except  the  compeer  of  Clay  and  Crittenden — the 
able,  indomitable,  and  gallant  old  cavalier  of  Kentucky,  (Garret  Davis.)  I 
except  you  also,  Mr.  Chairman.  [Laughter.]  Temperance  gloomy  ?  Not 
a  bit  of  it,  Mr.  President.  My  pledge  shall  be  a  perpetual  charm — "a  thing 
of  beauty  which  is  a  joy  forever" — not  a  cloud  of  gloom,  but  an  ever-pre- 
sent rainbow  of  promise,  hope,  and  beauty.  I  am  as  proud  of  it  as  of  my 
wife  and  children,  and  that  is  the  strongest  way  I  have  to  express  my  pride. 
[Applause.]  I  a.n  as  proud  of  it  as  I  am  of  the  commission  which  entitles 
me  to  hold  the  position  of  an  American  Senator.  By-the-bye,  Mr.  Chair- 
man, I  will  submit  to  you  the  question :  I  rather  think  the  commission  and 
the  temperance  pledge  ought  to  go  together.  [Applause.]  What  do  you 
think  about  having  "  the  teetotaller"  put  into  the  iron-clad  oath.  [Laugh- 
ter.] 

You  say,  of  what  use  is  the  pledge  ?  I  will  tell  you :  Twenty  days  ago 
there  came  along  a  friend  of  mine — a  Senator — and  said,  "  Let  us  take  a 
drink."  I  said,  "Certainly,  all  right."  Another  friend  from  Illinois  in  about 
three  minutes  and  a  half  came  along  and  said,  "  Let  us  take  a  drink."  Said 
I,  "All  right."  It  is  this  way.  One  drink  of  liquor  is  enough  for  me; 
two  ain't  half  enough,  [laughter,]  three  is  only  one-third  enough,  and  four 
is  chaos.  After  I  signed  the  pledge  I  was  asked  several  times  to  drink; 
but  I  didn't  do  any  such  thing.     [Laughter  ] 

After  I  signed  this  temperance  pledge  I  wrote  to  a  little  lady  out  in 
Illinois,  who  weighs  about  a  hundred  pounds,  has  black  hair  and  flashing 
black  eyes,  and  "  a  form  fairer  than  Grecian  chisel  ever  woke  from  Parian 
marble,"  and  I  received  the  following  answer : 

"  My  Dear  Richard  :  How  beautiful  is  this  morning  !  bow  bright  the  sun 
shines  I  how  sweetly  our  birds  sing!  how  joyous  the  children  !  how  happy  is  my 


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heart  !  I  see  the  mile  of  God.  He  has  answered  the  prayer.  Always  proud  of 
your  success,  you  have  now  achieved  that  success  which  God  and  angels  will  bless. 
It  is  the  shining  summit  of  human  aspiration,  for  you  have  conquered  yourself. 
All  who  love  you  will  aid  you  to  keep  the  pledge.     I  love  you,  my  dear  boy. 

Katie. 
[Loud  applause.] 

Love,  the  sun,  soul,  and  centre  of  the  moral  universe ;  love,  which  links 
angel  to  angel,  and  God  to  man;  love,  which  binds  in  one  two  loving 
hearts. — How  beautiful  is  love.     [Applause.] 

As  I  look  over  this  audience,  composed  of  Senators  aud  Representatives 
of  this  great  nation,  and  these  galleries  blazing  with  beauty  and  the  worth 
of  the  city,  and  sojourners  from  all  the  States  and  Territories,  I  ask  myself 
why  they  are  here  ?  Proud  England,  upon  whose  dominions  the  sun  never 
sets,  has  but  one  queen;  but,  thank  God,  we  have  millions  of  queens,  who 

"Walk  in  beauty  like  the  night 

Of  cloudless  climes  and  starry  skies," 

whose  chains  we  feel,  and  yet  we  bless  the  silken  sceptre.  You  are  here 
to  give,  by  your  presence,  encouragement  to  the  Congressional  Temperance 
Society;  and  I  propose,  sir,  that  this  society  shall  be  the  beginning  of  so- 
cieties throughout  the  land,  and  that  we  will  push  forward  the  temperance 
column,  move  upon  the  enemy's  works,  and  give  him  grape,  canister  and 
Greek  fire.  [Applause.]  We  will  storm  the  citadel  of  intemperance,  until 
it  shall  crumble  and  totter  and  fall  to  the  earth.  [Applause.]  Why  do  I 
refer  to  the  ladies  ?  Because  their  example  is  mightier  than  the  eloquence 
of  a  thousand  Senates  or  the  banners  of  a  thousand  legions.  [Applause.] 
You  are  here  to-night  to  see  the  snowy  white  flag  of  temperance  as  it  is 
unfurled  over  the  Capitol  of  your  country,  as  it  rises  and  rises,  and  unfolds 
to  God  and  spreads  until  it  shall  cover  the  whole  land,  and  until  there  shall 
not  be  a  drunkard  nor  a  moderate  drinker  to  take  away  the  bloom  from  the 
cheek  of  female  beauty,  and  until  all  the  hearthstones  of  this  land  shall  (blaze 
with  comfort  aud  joy,  and  happiness  and  gladness  shall  dwell  in  green  fresh- 
ness there.     [Tremendous  applause] 


[From  an  Editorial  article  in  the    Washington   Daily    Chronicle, 

February  18,  1S7T.] 


THE  CONGRESSIONAL  TEMPERANCE  MEETING. 


The  Congressional  temperance  movement  in  Washington  promises  to 
lead  to  the  most  gratifying  results. 

The  movement  for  a  State  temperance  convention,  to  be  held  at  Harris- 
burg,  Pennsylvania,  on  the  26th  instant,  headed  by  the  Governor,  Secre- 
tary of  State,  and  Speaker  of  the  Senate,  is  hailed  with  much  satisfaction 
in  this  quarter.  No  such  meeting  has  ever  been  held  in  the  national  capital 
as  that  which  assembled  last  Sunday  evening  in  the  hall  of  the  House  of 
Representatives  to  organize  a  Congressional  Temperance  Society.  It  was 
one  of  the  events  of  these  eventful  times.  Thousands  were  turned  away. 
Every  available  spot  which  gave  even  room  to  stand  upon,  in  the  galleries, 
upon  the  floor,  and  the  very  doorways,  was  occupied,  while  dense  lines  of 
anxious  men  and  women  extended  back  from  every  door  along  the  corridors. 
The  speeches  were  short,  brilliant,  and  effective.  That  of  Governor  and 
now  Senator  Yates,  of  Illinois,  was  particularly  touching.  His  bold  and 
determined  stand  against  intemperance,  his  avowal  that  henceforth  he  never 
would  touch  a  drop  of  liquor  of  any  kind,  and  his  frank  statement  of  the 
effects  of  drinking  upon  himself  and  others,  deeply  moved  the  audience. 

So  general  is  the  desire  of  the  thousands  who  heard  his  remarks,  and  also 
of  many  who  were  unable  to  gain  admission,  to  see  the  speech  in  print,  that 
we  produce  it  in  our  columns.  The  reader  who  was  not  present  cannot  fully 
appreciate  the  effect  of  the  speech,  so  much  did  it  depend  upon  the  manner 
of  delivery.  The  Speaker  has  a  magnetic  power  over  an  audience  which  is 
rarely  equalled.  At  first  hesitatingly,  as  if  struggling  to  master  the  emotions 
of  his  own  soul,  he  began  in  tremulous  tones,  when  suddenly  some  flash  of 


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thought  electrified  the  audience,  and  he  is  relieved  by  an  outburst  of  ap- 
plause. The  occasion  was  grand,  the  scene  inspiring,  and  the  Senator, 
whose  fine  appearance  and  graceful  figure,  no  less  than  his  brilliant  public 
services,  justify  the  pride  of  his  friends,  proceeded  in  a  clear,  ringing  voice, 
and  with  deliberate  and  distinct  utterance  through  a  speech  of  three  quarters 
of  an  hour  in  length,  scarcely  a  sentence  of  which  was  not  applauded.  Shouts 
of  laughter  and  stifled  sobs  and  tears  of  his  auditors  followed  in  continuous 
succession.  The  face  upon  which  there  were  no  smiles,  no  tears,  was  that 
of  the  speaker.  He  seemed  moved  by  a  cajm,  mighty  energy,  as  he  depicted 
the  fearful  ha?oc  and  degradation  of  intemperance. 

A  most  beautiful  and  touching  letter  from  his  wife  gave  special  interest 
to  the  speech,  and  profoundly  moved  the  audience.  As  he  closed  he  was 
presented  with  a  basket  of  beautiful  flowers,  and  left  the  platform  amid 
long-continued  applause. 

The  war  upon  this  fearful  evil  promises  to  become  fashionable  in  "Wash- 
ington, and  Senator  Wilson,  of  Massachusetts,  president  of  the  Congres- 
sional Temperance  Society,  labors  steadily  to  bring  men  of  all  parties  into 
his  organization.  In  this  good  work  he  is  gratefully  assisted  by  their  wives 
and  families.  Another  meeting  is  to  be  held  on  Sunday  evening  next,  at 
the  same  place,  when  a  similar  scene  may  be  anticipated. 


UNIVERSITY  OF  ILLINOIS-URBANA 

178.1Y27T  C001 

THE  TEMPERANCE  MOVEMENT  WASH  DC 


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